i was driven by an uber driver yesterday who seriously thought cycling should be illegal.

his rationale was that bicycles are “unregistered vehicles and so if they cause accident who is going to pay?!” when i pointed out that probably they should pay just as anyone else he just dismissed it like this: “that is not possible. if a cyclist crashes into me and kills me who is gonna pay me?!” i was speechless after that.

actually i realised later i might have been using promaster spectrum 28mm f2.8 for this particular shot.

i also like the pentax kit lens but it appears to have quite bad coma when it’s open to low stops… considering trying something different.

maybe you are right… if developing your skills is what you consiously do then you can do it faster with digital. that’s of course, not what most people taking pictures want.

i would still argue that the lessons stick better if you need to put more effort in and slowing down is a benefit in its own right.

i agree with you. once you got the basics down you will always be more productive with digital. that is if the pictures are what you are after rather than the process of making them - because search for beauty and relax are worthy goals on their own.

one problem is that it is actually harder to learn if pushing the button is all you do… but that’s not necessarily the issue of digital vs. analog…

nice metaphore to how people use the social media nowdays… they spill their mind into a public discussion forum and then they are pissed at the “reply guy problem” and try to come up with ways to stop people from talking instead of adjusting their expectations… i get it - everyone wants to be treated nicely but come on!

you are technically right… but, i mean… comments like this are the reason why this is not a place for any serious discussion. you just have to find any crack or disambiguity to attack and destroy anyone you disagree with, don’t you?

Do you think them having kids would change that perspective?

yes, i do. i don’t doubt there are some actual abusive parents out there but many more of the conflicts between kids and their parents is caused by the kids having their child perspective. and sadly, mentally developing to the point where the understand what their parents are going through typically takes longer than it takes for the relationship to be destroyed. therefore it is mostly up to the parents to keep it together but they are just people. and their kids talking shit with other kids about them surely does not help…

those people clearly don’t have kids of their own.

the mom is not “having beef” with you kid, she’s lost her life and her mind and cracked.

and the dad was on his third mental breakdown that day looking for anything to rationalize why he’s hyperventilating.

it was not the kids fault and any parent taking it out on their own kid is fucked, but they are not irrational monsters either.

i mean each of the individual programs that can load your keepass keyring is a password manager.

the keyring itself isn’t a password manager and the main reason why i use it is because each of the individual programs that i actually use to open it (keepassxc on windows, keepassdroid on my phone, keeweb hosted on my vps on other devices…) can use the same file with the same specification that is shared everywhere.

i’m not bound to any particular program with a particular set of features. just use anything that can open that file format from a place where i choose to host it.

keepass

it’s technically no password manager but an encrypted file format.

there are dozens of apps that will work on any platform, including soft keyboard with “password” button for smartphone that will just work everywhere and browser extensions, static website, apps that allow you to use your yubikey to unlock and anything else. you can host your vault anywhere including a google drive or your own webdav or ftp server and keep local copies on your devices synchronized…

36 exposures × 0.23$ = 8.somthing$ per roll, which is prettyy much cost of a roll of b&w film in a multipack on amazon today.

opens a post with question in the title that is lamenting that news don’t give any real answers and focus just on “trump bad” story.

all top comments are just “trump bad” and “all bad government” and has to scroll deep down to find an actual answer to the question posted.

leaves understanding much better why news don’t focus on context and give just emotional side stories.

yeah, according to our mayan guide when i was there the human sacrifices never happened… but they were extremely inconsistent with their stories and also believed that the number of days in the solar year is connected with human body through the number of joints so i wouldn’t take their word for it.

when i was listening to what guides in other groups were telling about the same spots and traditions i noticed that each and every one of them had their own fantastic and completely different story and many of the things they were saying were clearly wrong (e.g. that the descent of kukulcan shadow play only happens on two particular days of the year).

oh shit… i was there on that day! and i missed it…

after living in the US for some time i think i’m starting to get it…

one thing about the life in the US that the hollywood movies don’t show you very well is that the country is extremely tribal. the stories of diversity or of outsiders building their american dream are almost pure fantasy - you don’t make it in america because of the environment but in spite of it.

the way things work here is that you have to be a part of a group and you habe to stick with that group no matter what. because otherwise you are done. that’s why it is so hard for either democrats or republicans to admit when their politicians do even the most insane shit. that’s why people would rarher risk their kids lives rather than go against their peer group and vaccinate them. and that’s also why it is so important that the couple is “white” and not black, latino or (god forbid) mixed…

racism, xenofobia, nationalism and mysoginy are just side effects of a society that is split into constantly competing groups that reserve all the benefits for their own members… constant positive and negative discrimination that forces everyone to fall in or be left behind and that is stoked by any entity interested in exploiting those fragmented groups more easily.

this is a problem with fediverse in general imho.

the tools admins and users have are blunt (defederate or block). with all sorts of content moderation policies and opinions you will inevitably end up either alienated from everyone or surrounded by people that think and talk just like you.

fediverse does offer many advantages… creating a better online “town square” is just not going to be one of them.

i do not control mozilla leadership or their mishandling my data. the most influence i can exert as an individual is by not being a willing participant to their mischief. i’ll be happy to come back if the leadership changes and i get some guarantees.

yeah, the moderation there is getting insane. at this point i don’t even believe it is done by humans any more.

i got a permaban after responding to a comment that said bombing a hospital in gaza that killed over 30 children was a legitimate military target. i just politely wrote that maybe bombing hospitals full of kids is not a good idea even if a terrist is hiding inside…

maybe i am naive, maybe you are cynical.

some people do somerimes start business cause they have a good product in mind…

thinking google is about offering you a quality search at this point is like thinking facebook is about improving your social experience. they both started like that and that’s how they hooked people up. but they have their own interests now. those interests revolve around affecting how people act and think. one central thing they need to do to fulfil those interests is controlling what people see and know… and that’s very hard to do when this pesky external content generated by other that is hard to control gets into way…